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Google and other major companies, including H&M Group and Salesforce, have joined a plan to combat climate change by investing in carbon dioxide removal using rocks. Through a $27 million deal with Terradot, a startup backed by Sheryl Sandberg, they aim to capture 90,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Google also separately agreed to purchase an additional 200,000 tons of carbon removal from Terradot. These investments highlight the growing interest in enhanced rock weathering (ERW) as a low-tech solution for mitigating climate change.

To try to counteract the impact their pollution has on the climate, Google and other big companies have bought into a plan to trap carbon dioxide using rocks. They recently announced multimillion dollar deals with a Sheryl Sandberg-backed startup called Terradot. Google, H&M Group, and Salesforce are among a gaggle of companies that collectively agreed to pay Terradot $27 million to remove 90,000 tons carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Groundwater carrying that bicarbonate eventually makes its way to the ocean, which stores the carbon and keeps it out of the atmosphere. Accelerating the process, in theory, is simple: crush up rock and spread it out over a large area, increasing the surface area of exposed rock that reacts with CO2. Terradot has a 2029 deadline to make good on the 90,000-ton Frontier deal. It’s supposed to capture the additional 200,000 tons for Google by the early 2030s.

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The proposed climate fix tech companies just spent millions on? Rocks.Google and other big companies announced multimillion dollar deals with a startup called Terradot that uses rocks to capture carbon dioxide.
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